An anonymous comment in response to my last blog complained that media such as this blog make little mention of Republican candidates’ successes or viewpoints. I would like to retrieve that comment and place it in this space. Here it is: “As usual the establishment media and academia ignore anyone who is unacceptable to them. Ron Paul has been gaining tremendous following especially amongst online community ever since the Republican debates started. Do a quick comparison of candidate’s websites on alexa.com (www.ronpaul2008.com) (www.barackobama.com) (www.johnmccain.com) (www.joinrudy2008.com) and you can see that for past month Ron Paul’s website traffic is beating all establishment candidates hands down. Also on YouTube, Ron Paul has highest subscribers amongst all candidates (RonPaul2008dotcom: 16328), (BarackObamadotcom: 6993), (JohnMcCaindotcom: 1354) (RudyGiulianiHQ: 1520). …

If you don’t sense it already, here is this one thing we all ought to know right now: the 2008 U.S. Presidential election is going to be hugely impacted by YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and Blogs. No-one knows this better than the Presidential hopefuls themselves. Have you seen their Web sites lately? …

I am writing this during a layover at the Houston International Airport in Texas, returning to Seattle after attending four-day Scripps Howard Leadership Academy for future journalism and mass communication educators. The Academy was hosted by the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. At the academy, 12 of us were alerted to what mass communication education will look like in the years to come. …

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